Example sentences of "[pers pn] shows [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When he returns for his payment she shows him another body , claiming the porter has not done the job asked of him . |
| 2 | If your child displays awful behaviour with you , ask yourself : ‘ Is there anyone to whom she shows her better side ? ’ |
| 3 | In the diver-picture he shows himself ready to adumbrate the idea of a spatial setting , but he is far more cautious and conventional than his Etruscan predecessor . |
| 4 | He come in laughing one day , look at this Paul , look at this and he shows me this big long letter that this teacher had wrote on . |
| 5 | The jokes and the conversations end abruptly with ‘ But this is worshipful society ’ and at that point he shows his real toughness and ambition . |
| 6 | He shows his usual great concern about the level of service given by the Huddersfield jobcentre to his constituents . |
| 7 | We are made to wait while he shows his new toys ; a scarlet tricycle , a pull-along duck , a space-age gun playing the tunes of eight different police sirens when you pull the trigger . |
| 8 | It 's a great chance for the 27-year-old to revive his career — and Halifax could make the move permanent if he shows his fearsome form of three seasons ago . |
| 9 | The artist paints the face and body of the sitter , but in fact he shows his own feelings . |
| 10 | It shows her growing emotional involvement and gradually seems to affect her every movement . |
| 11 | And the Tory reaction to it shows their crude callousness . |
| 12 | He himself is much better recorded in the studio performance but the new one has a certain documentary value , for it shows him 14 years later still singing the part magnificently , still ( for example ) achieving that remarkable effect at the climax of ‘ Or son sei mesi ’ when , by his phrasingover , the shame ( ‘ vergogna ’ ) becomes the agony ( ‘ ahime ’ ) , and now ( at a time when it must be tempting to broaden baritonally ) deliberately sharpening the edge and brightness of his tenor . |
| 13 | It shows us some simple ways in which we can all join the drive for a better environment . |
| 14 | erm you go in this place and erm and it shows you all the boats and things , and you can have a go on , there 's this thing where they crawl up . |
| 15 | And it 's got a ship and erm there 's people on there and it shows you this thing round the ship erm they have a storm and suddenly the sh the erm what do you call it ? |
| 16 | It shows his remarkable powers of orchestration and his unique gift for melody and was played with fire and fervency ; a fine foretaste of the delights of Mozart 's G major piano concerto No 17 K453 . |